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On Wed, 14 Apr 2010 07:53:06 -0400
jamal <hadi@cyberus.ca> wrote:

> Results:
> CPU utilization was about 20-30% higher in the case of rps. On cpu0, the
> cpu was being chewed highly by sky2_poll and on the redirected-to-core
> it was always smp_call_function_single

I posted a patch to use sky2 hardware hash (RSS) which should lower the
cost per packet.

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